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I never usually spend this long on a single target. 20 minute exposures .. for over 11 hours worth over a week or so! If you turn your phone brightness up you should be able to see the faint outer details! HELIX NEBULA
Celestron C11 / F7 Reducer
1960mm Focal Length
QHY268M + QHY247C
19 x 20m Hydrogen-Alpha
64 x 5m OSC RGB (No Filter)
Total : 11.6 hours #astrophotography #helixnebula #byronbay #nsw #astronomy #youresa #universetoday
Last night had decent conditions for planetary, allowing me to resolve inner details within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, all it's minor storms in the belts and the newer outbreak (white) moving away to the left of the GRS. Celestron 11" EHD / ZWO174mm / Firecapture / WinJupos Derotation from 1.5hrs #celestron #zwo #byronbay #jupiter #greatredspot #arianagrande #planetary #astrophotography
IC1284 - The Hermit Crab Nebula
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I’ve been exploring less popular destinations in space lately and I have not been disappointed. This region near the Serpens side of Scorpio lacks the clarity and brightness of other popular targets in the area. I used the wide and fast RASA to reveal the structure of the dark nebula but the dense area of new stars contrasts well against the red hydrogen and the patches of reflectivity. Since it doesn’t seem to have a common name, I’m going to nickname it the Hermit Crab Nebula. If that’s a good name for it, I shouldn’t have to point it out! If not, leave your suggestions in the comments 🙂
Celestron 11″ RASA
QHY268M Cooled Cmos (-10c)
SkyWatcher EQ8-Rh Pro Mount
64 x 2m – Hydrogen Alpha
41 x 2m – Green Filter
39 x 2m – Red Filter
Combined as truecolour (HaHaGB)
Total – 2.4 hours integration #astrophotography #byronbay #visitnsw #lockdownastronomy #hermitcrab #darknebula #celestron #qhyccd #ic1284
NSW gov : “Don’t go more than 5kms from your home and only for essential reasons.”
ME: Check out this complex terraced crater 371,613kms away! (Celestron 11” EHD @ 7000mm) 🔭 #astrophotography #celestron #lunar
Ahh the difference a night of good seeing makes! Saturn this evening taken with @celestronuniverse C11, 2.5x powermate, ZWO 174mm camera. The "opposition surge" on the rings is still there! The inner transparent 'C' ring looks particularly cool. The bottom peeking under rings is back now for ~29 years and the rings will be a thin line in 2025 as they tilt edge-on! #c11 #saturn #astrophotography #celestron #byronbay
This amazing patch of sky is not commonly photographed for some reason and is new for me. It's certainly fainter than some of the more popular targets but it is huge and detailed if you get enough data. It's a star forming region dominated by hydrogen emissions but also dark swathes of dust and gas whose extinction may resemble a wolf to some viewers. If you zoom in closely you can clearly see background stars behind the dark extinction areas and many star forming pillars. The star forming areas are dominated by young blue stars, and much of the background areas have a higher concentration of older orange stars.
Taken this week from Byron Bay Observatory, Australia - Dylan O’Donnell
Celestron 11” RASA
QHY268M CMOS Camera
SkyWatcher EQ8Rh-Pro Mount
Processed as truecolour - Ha/HaGB
42 x 2m Ha
30 x 2m Green
40 x 2m Blue
Total 3.7 hours integration #astrophotography #celestron #qhyccd #skywatcher #byronbay #sl17 #darkwolf #wolf #astronomy
Took out the Bronze (highly commended) this week in the David Malin awards for this photo of THE WEIRDEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN IN SPACE. It’s a dark nebula that appears fairly inactive. It should be red. In truth, it’s forming stars deep inside where we can’t see it. #astrophotography #bronze 🥉
Who do you trust less in space - Billionaires, or Governments? #entropy
E N T R O P Y by Rick Schneider - a metalcore music video produced in collaboration with astronomer, Dylan O’Donnell that explores the relationship between humanity and the vast, unfathomable expanses of the universe. 'Entropy', a name inspired by the merging of their two fields : heavy metal & space.
With thanks to @intelanz for providing two #IntelEvo based @hpaustralia Spectre X360 laptops which this music and video was written, recorded and produced with.
Behind the scenes videos on how this project came together:
Week 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPKlN...
Week 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh5mM...
Week 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC9iN...
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Polaris - Australian Metalcore Band : @polarisaus
Watch Rick’s perspective via his Instagram :
Rick Schneider : @rickschhh
Mate! M8 Lagoon in all her natural coloured glory captured as Ha/R/G/B .. about 4 hours worth over 4 nights and only using the best data. Except blue. Blue is always a cranky little bastard. Shot with Celestron 11” RASA at F2 using 2m exposures, QHY268M Camera and Skywatcher EQ8Rh-Pro. #astrophotography #celestronrocks #rasa #qhyccd #skywatcher #byronbay #purplehaze #dontdodrugs
Check this out. If you set your planetarium (I’m using @FifthStarLabs SkyGuide for iOS) to France, June 22nd 1889 around 3am you’ll see what Van Gogh saw when he painted Starry Night through the bars of his asylum window. 🤯 #spaceart #astronomy #skyguide #vangogh
#Ad - I try converting some of my static images of space into dynamic, moving images for a song that Rick Schneider from Polaris is writing. The epic, new space music video collaboration will be revealed in the next and final instalment of this #WonderfulCrossover using the @intelanz @hpaustralia #IntelEvo based HP Spectre laptop!
Watch the full video on YouTube (link in bio).
#IntelPartner #PaidPartnership @hpaustralia
#DoSomethingWonderful #WonderfulCrossovers
Polaris - Australian Metalcore Band : @polarisaus
Watch Rick’s perspective via his Instagram :
Rick Schneider : @rickschhh
No, you’re not gently hallucinating again - this space vista is moving. It’s an artistic conversion using after effects, layers and displacement to imagine what it would look like if you were a giant flying through space with godlike eyeballs that were sensitive to hydrogen emissions. Featuring NGC 6188 “Dragons of ARA”… expect more psychedelic conversions of my images soon! #astrophotography #3d #ara #byronbay #bringbackthe90s
You can animate star trail images by bouncing out individual images during the additive stacking process (in my case using StarStaX) .. see my IG stories for a demo 🙂 #astrophotography #byronbay #startrails #freesoftware
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Rick visits the Byron Bay Observatory to discuss the space metal project, share ideas and get a taste of space from the Easternmost Cape. Watch how the creative process unfolds after @intelanz provided an #IntelEvo based @hpaustralia Spectre x360 to see what we can pull off or hammer on.
@Intelanz @hpaustralia
#IntelPartner #PaidPartnership #IntelEvo
Polaris - Australian Metalcore Band : @polarisaus
Watch Rick’s perspective via his Instagram :
Rick Schneider : @rickschhh
Dylan’s links
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PATREON : https://www.patreon.com/dylanodonnell
WEB : https://deography.com
FACEBOOK : https://facebook.com/dylanodonnell
TWITTER : https://twitter.com/erfmufn
INSTAGRAM : https://instagram.com/dylan_odonnell_
APPLE MUSIC : https://music.apple.com/au/artist/dylan-odonnell/1558954204
SPOTIFY : https://open.spotify.com/artist/3npvCdR9vg17f6WotLvNPv?si=CuUjqpIsSGeZ7-xRKCQgKg
Intro Music - "Moving the Ocean (Aerologic Edit)" by Blastculture.
Sad Piano by MRTN
Cyberpunk Synthwave - Black Rainbows // by White Bat Audio
Masochist, Consume & Hypermania by Polaris
All other music by Dylan O'Donnell
I kinda messed this one up BUT it's also too pretty to throw away. So here's M83, Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (C11 / SW EQ8Rh-Pro / QHY268M/247C) ... to find out how screwy this photo is watch the behind the scenes 8m video for illegal astrophoto processing. #astrophotography #byronbay #celestron #skywatcher #qhyccd #qhy #m83 #galaxy #youresa
#Ad Introducing a new wonderful crossover where two unique particles are smashed together in the Large Hadron Collider of creativity thanks to @intelanz and the #IntelEvo based @hpaustralia laptop. (Link in bio for full video)
Stay tuned for the quantum fallout and potentially universe-ending consequences of the collaboration between Dylan O'Donnell from the Byron Bay Observatory and Rick Schneider from Polaris.
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#DoSomethingWonderful
#WonderfulCrossovers
Polaris : @polarisaus
Rick Schneider : @rickschhh
Coming Soon.
From this oyster of Hydrogen comes the new baby pearl - Al Niyat, actually two twin stars too close to tell apart. The region is clouded with orange glowing dust from Antares out of frame. Ten-times further away from this oyster the globular cluster M4 floats in the background - filled with thousands of stars, aged and depleted and heading slowly towards their stellar life’s end.
Taken with Celestron 11" RASA
Skywatcher EQ8Rh-Pro Mount
QHY268M - Monochrome Camera
Hydrogen Alpha - 43 x 2m
Green - 23 x 2m
Blue - 24 x 2m
Combined as HaHaGB
Total Integration : 3 hours #byronbay #astrophotography #celestron #qhy #qhyccd #skywatcher #pixinsight @celestronuniverse @qhyccd_astropic
The star behind the Rho Ophiuchus region (literally), Rho Ophichus and companions, hot, young, blue stars at the tip of the darkest swath of dark molecular nebula. Taken this weekend, broadband with @celestronuniverse 11" RASA & @qhyccd_astropic 268M as L/R/G/B integration 3.2hrs - Click to ZOOM! #byronbay #astrophotography #celestronrocks #qhy #skywatcher #eq8rhpro
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